Where to look if you've lost your mind?
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.
He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.